Topic: PS1's Namco Museum Volumes 1-5 are now on the NA PlayStation Store

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2014/10/01/every-namco-museum-vo...

All five of the original volumes of Namco Museum from the PlayStation are now available on the North American PlayStation Store on both PS3 and PS Vita. Here's a full list of Namco Museum compilations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namco_Museum

I also posted this topic on Push Square: http://www.pushsquare.com/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=17987#p17987

Might be interesting. I have the three rare volumes, but my copy of 4 has a scratch that stops the museum mode from working. (the games still play when launched from the quick-start menu).
I believe the exclusives in the set are that 5 has the only English release of Legend of Valkyrie, a top-down shooter/platformer. 4 has Genpai Toumaden.
I think Baraduke (?) and MetroCross (5) might be (western) exclusive console releases.
Was Dragon Spirit (5) an unlockable on 50th Anniversary, or was that a different game? Though the NES version was probably better content-wise.

And you missed it but it's on PSP as well (thankfully. Kind of annoying when PS1 games are only offered on one or two out of the three consoles (PS3, PSP, Vita).)

You're right that 5 does have the only release of "Legend of the Valkyrie" outside of Japan and that 4 has the only release of Genpei Toumaden outside of Japan. 4 also has the only releases of "The Return of Ishtar" and the arcade version of "Ordyne" outside of Japan (the graphics and sound have better quality in the arcade version of Ordyne than on the Turbografx-16 version). I'm unsure about Baraduke but the original arcade machine version of MetroCross was released outside of Japan originally. Namco Museum Volume 5 did have the only home ports of Baraduke and MetroCross until Namco Museum Virtual Arcade for Xbox 360 came out in November 2008. Dragon Spirit got an American arcade release back in the day, included in Volume 5, it was available right from the start in the 50th Anniversary and it was included in Namco Museum Virtual Arcade for 360, Namco Museum Essentials for PS3, and in the 2010 arcade machine "Pac-Man's Arcade Party".

About PSOne Clasics in general, I think Sony should start offering them on the PS4's PlayStation Store since PlayStation Now only has PS3 games.

Yes, I saw that. I'm not sure which ones to get. Might wind up getting all of them over the course of the next year.

Also, since Konami is suddenly supporting PSN again, and Suikoden is on sale this week...I wonder if Suikoden II will drop soon?

If you want to compare to physical discs, 2, 4 and 5 are the rare volumes. 1 and 3 got Greatest Hits release (because they had more popular and thus more commonly rereleased games) so they're really common and probably cheap (though I suppose collectors might still want the black-label covers so they can, as GamePro pointed out back in the day, spell NAMCO with the CD covers. (didn't the Japanese-only Encore volume have like a trademark symbol or something? )
5 is particularly rare. I think I paid like $60 for a CIB a couple years ago, and even when I was looking at PS games at GameStop, probably every couple days when I was in college for a couple years, I only saw one copy (and it was when I was first starting to collect PS games, so I didn't think to pick it up). Can't remember for sure if I ever saw the other two rares.

I don't want to bother with the Physical discs. All 5 have games I want to play, so I'll get all 5 eventually.

My late grandmother used to have volume one on her PS1 and played Toy Pop all the time. I'll buy it just for her.